Definitions for CAMP

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CAMP camp

Spelling: [kamp]

IPA: /kæmp/

Camp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in CAMP (acmp).

Definitions for CAMP

noun

1. a place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter.
2. such tents or shelters collectively:
3. the persons so sheltered:
4. the act of camping out:
5. any temporary structure, as a tent or cabin, used on an outing or vacation.
6. a group of troops, workers, etc., camping and moving together.
7. army life.
8. a group of people favoring the same ideals, doctrines, etc.:
9. any position in which ideals, doctrines, etc., are strongly entrenched:
10. a recreation area in the country, equipped with extensive facilities for sports.
11. day camp.
12. summer camp.
13. something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
14. a person who adopts a teasing, theatrical manner, especially for the amusement of others.
15. Walter Chauncey [chawn-see,, chahn-] /ˈtʃɔn si,, ˈtʃɑn-/ (Show IPA), 1859–1925, U.S. football coach and author.
16. cyclic AMP.

adjective

1. campy:

verb (used with object)

1. to put or station (troops) in a camp; shelter.

verb (used without object)

1. to establish or pitch a camp:
2. to live temporarily in or as if in a camp or outdoors, usually for recreation (often followed by out):
3. to reside or lodge somewhere temporarily or irregularly, especially in an apartment, room, etc.:
4. to settle down securely and comfortably; become ensconced:
5. to take up a position stubbornly:
6. Also, camp it up. to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner.

Origin of CAMP

1520-30; Middle French can, camp, orig. dial. (Normandy, Picardy) or Old Provençal Italian campo Latin campus field; compare Old English campe, compe battle, battlefield (cognate with German

Examples for CAMP

Went over to the lake with all the horses, and brought the loads to the camp.

Kulash and Nordwind met in camp when they were 11-years-old.

Like his boss al-Baghdadi, he was captured by U.S. forces and served time in camp Bucca.

Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”

On our way Tommy Windich shot a red kangaroo, which we carried to camp.

“I went to a Jewish summer camp…” A van pulls up, and the two hop out, and immediately strip down and do a series of stretches.

Left a note for my brother, advising him to camp here the first night.

Tommy also shot an emu that came to water, and which we carried to camp.

We went back and found Taylor's mare, and brought her slowly to camp.

Pan Am was granted landing rights at camp Colombia, an army base near Havana.